skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supposed to be [1][2] according to [0] but only by lots of clicking through GUI? It's really intuitive. GSI(Geospatial Information Authority of Japan) download site is a lot better, though they're more geography focused.

0: https://twitter.com/tocho_digital/status/1697474739583746474

1: https://catalog.data.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/dataset/t000029d00000...

2: https://catalog.data.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/dataset/t000029d00000...

3: https://fgd.gsi.go.jp/download/menu.php
One could, but given that such small-scale economies existed within in the modern post-industrial era, it would be disingenuous to do so.
Fwiw, betaflight for acro flight is probably the best. Tuning is dead simple. Filtering is possibly the best.

That said, I don’t need much else because I just fly acro mode 100% of the time.
It is commonplace to block a VPN address block if you are experiencing tenacious malicious traffic. Its a consequence of sharing address space with bad actors, not something a service would likely be pursuing without cause.
In what way would this be an environmental win, then? I went to one onsen and between the showering before and after, I’m pretty sure I used more water and energy than showering back at the hotel.
That summary is nearly identical to the abstract of the paper...
Cisco did in France: https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/27951404269204...
>Sacking the CEO, throwing him under the bus, and then publicly demanding salary back just reflects really badly on Intel.

Now that shines a new light. Not sure where you have this idea but definitely some food for thought.

Basically someone doesn't like Pat. I wouldn't be surprised if it was ex-Intel Board members.
Thanks, I now can see synthetic data being used to patch up holes and deal with ethical issues.

I still don't see how it could address the volume problem, like needing 10x or 100x of current data to train GPT5.
I read the article, and I think the person you replied to is spot on.

This paper, and the discussion around it, is a lot of handwringing over nothing. The results generalize to two things:

1) if you build a system that is stable, then a minor perturbation will not destabilize it.

2) if you have a system that probabilistically models approximate human language, then it isn't surprising when it outputs text that approximates what a human likes to imagine they might do in a given situation.
The ash borer had been here long enough to spread way beyond just the east.
Reminds me of how even after deep blue chess players learned better anti computer strategies. Because the space of Go is so much larger there are likely many more anti computer strategies like this. It exploits the eval function in the same way

Like chess more compute will win out, as has already been shown. I will remind everyone that elo is a measure of wins and losses not difficulty, conflating the two will lead to poor reasoning.
In some sense physics (and with it, everything) is nothing but a black box of math.
The Gov't / Federal Reserve has made it clear they will not let the value of assets drop significantly ever again. The entire planet's capital is now betting on US equities going up and to right forever, and all levers will be used and invented wholesale from nothing to keep that going.
I think they gave up on finding technological solutions too quickly. I don't think energy consumption is going to go down easily; the path of least resistance is clearly going to be finding a way to deliver more power sustainably. We can replace old water heaters with heat pump water heaters; they do have disadvantages (many require a 240V circuit and obviously they can't function during a power outage unlike gas) but they work. We can continue to improve the electric grid with renewables and batteries. It's expensive and it's a challenge, but increasingly it's pretty obvious that it is the future.

Having a culture of public bath houses would be interesting, but I don't think it would be much more than a speed bump in terms of energy usage of society. We can and will find more things to spend energy on for the foreseeable future until it becomes untenable...
> Walmart is consistently the cheapest grocery store around

One upside of Walmart in my area is that they have their cheap pricing up front.

Every other grocery chain here has a gamified points program that involves activating "offers" through their phone app and then hoarding points until you're able to redeem during a bonus redemption event that coincides with a sale on a product that you actually need.
> Nobody who uses the phrase ever means it in this way.

That is true. Outside of formal logic situations, deliberately uttered vacuous truths are only ever used by nerds to be clever, or for sarcasm, or insult and such.

Someone habitually using "never fails to disappoint" intended as a compliment has somehow latched onto an incorrect idiom; they likely intend something slightly funny like "never manages to disappoint" (tries hard to disappoint, but never does, due to being so good!). Or maybe it's supposed to be a deliberately funny mixup of "never fails" and "never disappoints".
All it is doing is opening a new tab when the user clicks a button, then closing that tab. The JavaScript that replaces the cookie comes from the site itself. I'm sure there's an API call that happens inside the extension to look up the affiliate link to load, but that's probably it.

They wrap all their magic behind that single click, but to be fair, that's exactly how the traditional coupon code sites (e.g. retailmenot) have always worked. Honey just wrapped it into a browser extension and promoted the hell out of it.
That’s not an apt comparison. X wanted to keep operating in Brazil without following the law, so Brazil suspended them.

The parent commenter is talking about Cloudflare stopping operations in Italy of their own accord.
In CPUs, AMD has made many innovations that have been copied by Intel only after many years and this delay had an important contribution to Intel's downfall.

The most important has been the fact that AMD has predicted correctly that big monolithic CPUs will no longer be feasible in the future CMOS fabrication technologies, so they have designed the Zen family since the beginning with a chiplet-based architecture. Intel had attempted to ridicule them, but after losing many billions they have been forced to copy this strategy.

Also in the microarchitecture of their CPUs AMD has made the right choices since the beginning and then they have improved it constantly with each generation. The result is that now the latest Intel big core, Lion Cove, has a microarchitecture that is much more similar to AMD Zen 5 than to any of the previous Intel cores, because they had to do this to get a competitive core.

In the distant past, AMD has also introduced a lot of innovations long before they were copied by Intel, but it is true that those had not been invented by AMD, but they had been copied by AMD from more expensive CPUs, like DEC Alpha or Cray or IBM POWER, but Intel has also copied them only after being forced by the competition with AMD.
online games aren’t the problem imo, it’s disposable identities and ~zero repercussions for bad actors.
Wait til he finds out NATO member Iceland doesn’t have an army.
I think this is blissfully ignorant. Walmart's model is built on creating prices and selection that are so attractive that it is very difficult to compete. Part of the way they do that is by extracting profits out and leaving only low paid employees locally.
To put it charitably, Dijkstra was unusually sure that his opinions were objectively correct.
Your mind would still exist even when cut off from all inputs.
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Is there no balance we can strive to hit?

Seems weird to be ok with slave labour and poor practices, simply because you want to ignore the negative externalities and consume cheap things (ie. undermining local economic production).
Black box of carbon or a black box of silicon.
Maybe the demographics of HN are such that a bunch of people just had kids.
> but it also implies that SOME workers will no longer have jobs due to their inability to compete on a global market.

It's so bizzare that making things more efficient and in effect saving humans from the burden of inefficient labor is seen as negative. Tying people's survival to their ability to sell their labor is such a terrible idea in this day and age.
My concern is slightly different; it's the ease of debugging. And I don't mean debugging the code that I (or sb else) wrote, but the ability to freely modify the code to kick some ideas around and see what sticks, etc. which I frequently need to do, given my field.

As an example, consider a pointer to a const object as a function param in C++: I can cast it away in a second and modify it as I go on my experiments.

Any thoughts on this? How much of an extra friction would you say is introduced in Rust?
~Or Apple could remove Google Search as a choice on Safari

It could remove Google as a choice for users of safari? That seems like an insane thing to present as an approach apple might take. They could stop making it the default, but I think making it in unselectable actually would upset users enough to cause issues, at least in the short term.
I think one point in support of Yudkowsky's thesis of AI takeover is :

A superintelligent AI would want to maximize its future freedom (reframing the silly paperclip maximizer thesis).
Such an AI, being intimate with the Platonic World of ideas and mathematics,
would also want the same amount of freedom in Physical world that it enjoys in the Platonic Realm.
And to achieve that it would need to get rid of any OUTSIDE restrictions.
Here OUTSIDE represents the material world and by definition, the Humans who
created the superintelligent AI.
TLDR; This software doesn’t want or do anything it isn’t designed to. People will continue to build software that looks to the charitably credulous like “aligned” “intelligence” because that is what they want to make
Complexity sells in terms of dopamine. "Look at this incredibly complicated thing I made, that I understand and you don't! Aren't I brilliant!" "You must be - I can't understand it at all."

People get emotional rewards from themselves from making something work that is at the limit of the complexity that they can handle. They often also get emotional rewards from others for making things that others can't understand. (They shouldn't, but they often do.)
Yes, I was rather tired and typing on my phone required more correcting of the autocorrect feature than I could manage.
Step 1: Don't use CloudFlare MITM as a service

Step 2: Don't get blocked because you're not a streaming pirate service

Really, I see no downside to this court decision.
On the other hand, where do you draw the line with regards to lawbreaking?
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X wanted to keep operating in Brazil without following the law

That’s certainly one way to characterize that situation.
No, stop. Full stop. Categorial error.

Title SHOULD be DATASETS (whether enumerable or supplied by proxy via model such as PPO) are increasingly being created that make humans think "AIs are faking alignment".

PSA: An ideal transformer can only perfectly generalize over the dataset it was trained on. Once you have an ideal transformer, you realize it makes no sense to focus on the transformer and should focus on the dataset instead.

Information is conserved. Models do not create information.

An ideal transformer trained on random noise will create random noise. An ideal transformer trained on "misinformation" will produce "misinformation".

Everything less than an ideal transformer simply fails to perfectly generalize over the dataset, but even ideal transformers do not "create" information.

It is harmful for many reasons to anthropomorphize LLMs like this, the least of which is that it obfuscates what we SHOULD be focusing on, which is building better datasets so we can make useful tools. Instead we are focusing on absurd questions like the morality of toasters and spreading this brain rot contagion to our fellow engineers and the public by continuing to validate it.

I don't care how much marketing money OpenAI and the other FAANGs dump into pretending that this thing is going to go Skynet. Unless we have a SKYNET DATASET, it's NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. INFORMATION IS CONSERVED.

Edit: Dear downvoters, please do explain how this threatens your world view. I am actively trying to help build better LLMs, so if you like LLMs, we should be on the same team. If you don't like LLMs, we should also be on the same team. As far as I am concerned, if you are downvoting this, you have either been deceived or are potentially actively participating in deception.

If I am wrong, please tell me why in the comments.
In my case the interstate was put in 30 miles north of town before I was born. In the 1960s the town had been an active town due to being near the intersection of two major state roads, and actually had three large motel complexes at that intersection. But the interstate put them out of business.
A 7” drone can happily carry about 1.5kg which is more than sufficient to carry a RPG shell.
Synthetic data is being proposed here as a solution to extrapolate ML scaling.

Augmentation, interpolation, smoothing are different concepts.
Apple hired top Intel engineers to develop the M-series chips
>with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it".

Tab Groups remains a good idea on paper but no one has done a useful implementation of it. I remember during the Firefox 4 Tab Group era I purposed that Tabs from site ( Say HN ) and any Tabs opened from that site, for example I have another tab from this submitted links bugzilla.mozilla.org. All To be moved together into a tab group instead of just moving site to a tab group.

It was rejected for whatever reason.
How long did you run the benchmark if you got so large variation?

For simple methods I usually run the benchnarkes method 100k times, 10k is minimum for full JIT.

For large programs I have noticed the performance keeps getting better for the first 24 hours, after which I take a profiling dump.
> there's something like a 1/10 risk that you're fooling yourself.

You’re being generous or a touch ironic. It’s at least 1/10 and probably more like 1/5 on average and 1/3 for people who don’t take advice.

Beyond testing changes in a larger test fixture, I also find that sometimes multiplying the call count for the code under examination can help clear things up. Putting a loop in to run the offending code 10 times instead of once is a clearer signal. Of course it still may end up being a false signal.

I like a two phase approach, wheee you use a small scale benchmark while iterating on optimization ideas, with checking the larger context once you feel you’ve made progress, and again before you file a PR.

At the end of the day, eliminating accidental duplication of work is the most reliable form of improvement, and one that current and previous generation analysis tools don’t do well. Make your test cases deterministic and look at invocation counts to verify that you expect n calls of a certain shape to call the code in question exactly kn times. Then figure out why it’s mn instead. (This is why I say caching is the death of perf analysis. Once it’s added this signal disappears)
Curl offers a monetary reward as part of their bug bounty program, so that is a contributing factor in their case.

It seems to me like talentless hacks looking for ChatGPT to get them easy money/cred without any actual work.
A though-provoking essay that makes me think "yes, that's exactly right," again and again, whenever I re-read it. Highly recommended.

Please consider using the original title: is "On the nature of Computing Science."

The essay is about much more than simplicity versus complexity.
Before the US had a rust belt, a meth belt, and opioid belt, you could go to Western Auto and put a bicycle on layaway. I think the malls out-competed a lot of the older nostalgic stores. Walmart did siphon away enough business from malls to come out on top.

FYI, Sears acquired Western Auto and most of it was put into Advance Auto Parts. The headquarters in Kansas City was converted into 101 condos.

https://www.apartments.com/western-auto-bldg-multi-family-ka...
I thought so too, until I realized that if atheists see God as a deep aspect of the human mind, that evolved that way for reasons, then we don't miss much of the Judeo-Christian story. I stopped by a local church for Bible study just in order to challenge my assumptions and found that they had no problem with that formulation at all. I expected way more awkwardness and even pushed the issue, to no avail. The result was a delightful experience of people sitting around interrogating ancient texts and being attentive to each other's life challenges.

I found that the structure of the Christian congregation is equivalent to the anarchist affinity group. I realized that, unlike us, Christians build infrastructure to support their organizing, and we should probably adopt that.

I'm still the same atheist, just a churchgoing one. I don't go to mass often or ever recite the Nicene Creed, but otherwise it's been a fantastic social outlet, great intellectual company, and the organ festival is off the hook.
How do they collect point cloud data at scale?
AI does feel like a sort of mass delusion in that people think it is sentient
Your town seems to prefer short-term gains over long-term sustainability. You might not be poorer but Walmart could be keeping folks stagnant. If they extract all wealth then the well runs dry.
> Some crime victims would rather have their perpetrators “rot in hell” than see them have these kinds of privileges, said Randall Liberty, commissioner of the Maine Department of Corrections, and victims are notified, and their concerns considered, when offenders line up remote jobs.

I can understand those very human feelings. But the state justice system should not be retributive, no matter how much victims want it to be.

It should focus on protection (keeping criminals off the streets and the rest of us safe), deterrence, rehabilitation, and restitution. And its constraints should be fairness, transparency, and speed/efficiency.
This.

An LLM isn't going to build you a recipe to clone transgenic viruses or help you synthesize novel chemical weapons unless you're training it to do that.

I'm unaware of there being training data for these cases. The models won't learn the ten year postgraduate career that connects the dots.
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The problem with this is that it contributes more to internet censorship in that country compared to handling and fighting against each individual censorship request.
Yet another fantastic joeyh project in my toolkit, thanks! (git-annex is awesome)
Interesting point in the timing. In general I think it's probably just growing awareness of the issue, also combined with a growing number of people in tech starting families (often quite late) and being like 'zomg why didn't I do this earlier.' Many people in tech are also fascinated with countries like Japan which are acting like a living warning to the rest of the world about fertility.

In general though I think cultural shifts often lack any clear reason. People like Musk or Gates chiming in on the issue are almost certainly effects rather than causes.
While I do support piracy. Services like Cloudflare already locked up most of the free internet you're imagining.
Considering that the DOJ is going to come after Apple in the future probably after scoring win against Google and Amazon. I don't think this is a wise strategy by Apple to take this obvious side with monopoly position. And I hate that apple consider their hardware users as some belongings that they need to get money in order for others to reach them.
I wonder what ways they might learn to obfuscate their thinking if they consider that their scratchpad is also open to inspection by their trainers?
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I used this as an example before, the AWS SDK

https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/inde...

It’s the same in every supported language since it is autogenerated from service definition files. I chose the Python version because it is all on one page. Would you rather memorize thousands of functions across hundreds of classes? Should AWS “reduce complexity” by getting rid of services and functionality?

Would you rather have an auto complete IDE or have to look up the web reference?

I’m sure it’s more complex to run S3 at scale than to build out the data center I did as part of my job to store 4TB worth of data in the early 2000s.

I would much rather run a 4 line CloudFormation template and do it in less than a second over it taking months to do it in house.

I started my programming in assembly in the 80s, should we go back to that too or should we keep using compilers and interpreters?

Should we keep programming in C or should we use manages runtimes with garbage collection?
People pretend not to be evil. Their writings reflect this. AI is being trained on these writings. What could go wrong?
There is too much emphasis on incarceration. It seems like a fair amount of correctional system bureaucracy could be replaced by public horsewhipping. Send a message and send ‘em on their way.
Yeah I would say the issue isn't that it's a blackbox (which it is), but rather that they should frame their research on what's actually happening according to what we do know about LLM's. They don't "know" anything, but rather we see their generative text retain roleplaying over longer conversations as advancements in the space are made.
and you now have unchecked use-after-decommisioning-the-index and double-decommission-the-index errors, which could be security regressions
sounds great if youre starting from scratch. I work on a project with 250k+ files I didn't create
Well his idea was that the laws of physics actually change depending on the distance from the galactic center. Far enough out, information can be transferred faster than the speed of light. Too close and life stops working. Which honestly seems much more fun than gravity slowing things down a bit.
The replies are bit harsh. It is a solution to meaningless of life. I am reminded constantly by some of my friends.

But it's also a problem for some. For example, it means moving out of expensive cities, it means worrying about making lots of money (if you live in the U.S.), it means child care is thousands a month, it means health care is thousands a month. It means you have to be responsible and not drink every day. It means potentially not sleeping for a year.

Personally, seeing the stress of my workmates, and how they became more dependent on their jobs, on the shit of the jobs, and how now they're more competitive on the job, and worried... I'd personally choose to write that off.

But I know people who found meaning through child-rearing, as you say!
Especially not simply making the site not load like that. If you really think a browser is so bad you don't want people using it, at least have it redirect to a message explaining what your grievance is. Unless the browser is DDoSing webpages it loads successfully, making the site look broken is pretty worthless as a response.

EDIT: Although, it looks like they tried to do that sometimes? No idea why they would switch from that approach.
I wonder how it works that they are banned from "routing internet traffic to IP addresses of all services present on the “Piracy Shield”. With a naive approach anyone who controlled the DNS records for a site present on the privacy shield could cause some serious mischief.
Let's block all Italy and see how fast they backtrack :)